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Princession Orchestra Anime Casts Kana Hanazawa
posted on by Egan Loo
The staff for the original anime Princession Orchestra announced on Sunday that the anime has cast Kana Hanazawa as White Queen, who threatens the peace of Alicepia:
The staff also announced that the musical unit Orcheria is returning to perform the new opening and ending theme songs for the second half of the anime, "Future Session" and "Oneness Harmony," respectively. The staff presented the anime's second key visual and visuals for the new characters Princess Viola and Princess Neige:
The anime's official YouTube channel had streamed the first two episodes with English subtitles earlier this month, but deleted the videos a few days later, after comments on the video alleged the videos used machine translation.
The anime stars (character name romanizations are not confirmed):
- Azusa Aoi as / Minamo Sorano / Princess Ripple (blue hair)
- Yuri Fujimoto as Kagari Sakibe / Princess Zeal (pink hair)
- Azusa Tachibana as Kagase Ichijō / Princess Meteor (green hair)
- Hiro Shimono as Nabiiyu
- Chiaki Kobayashi as Callisto (Snatch band member)
- Shōya Chiba as Giita (Snatch band member)
- Junya Enoki as Besu (Snatch band member)
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Doran (Snatch band member)
- Nana Mizuki as, Red Queen (Snatch band leader)
The anime takes place in Alicepia, which is a mysterious country that has existed since ancient times. The inhabitants of Alicepia, the Alicepians, are a fun-loving people, but one day mysterious monsters called Jamaock appeared to threaten the peace of Alicepia. The story follows the "princesses" who never forget the song in their hearts, even when facing such danger.
Unlike other anime projects that insert pre-recorded songs into battle sequences, this anime has the voice cast members sing new renditions of songs in each episode's recording sessions.
King Records and ARIA entertainment's new content production brand UNISON are credited with the original work, and Takara Tomy is sponsoring the project. Akifumi Kaneko (Symphogear franchise's series composition) is credited with the original plan. Elements Garden's Noriyasu Agematsu is the executive producer. Shin Ōnuma (Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya anime franchise, BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. both seasons) is directing the anime at SILVER LINK. Manta Aisora (Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! original creator) is writing and overseeing the series scripts. Yukiko Akiyama (Yumeiro Pâtissière, Isuca) is designing the characters for animation based on Mari Shimazaki's (Luck & Logic, Bayonetta) original designs. Elements Garden is composing the music.
The project is for both children and adults, and consists of the anime, music, and toys.
Sources: Princession Orchestra anime's website, Comic Natalie
